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The London Free Press
Given the right training, doctors at fracture clinics can do more than treat broken bones in suspected domestic abuse cases, but aren’t always confident how to handle the job, an abuse-prevention study finds.
With as many as one in six women patients at fracture clinics experiencing some form of intimate partner abuse within the previous year, researchers educated orthopedic surgeons and hospital clinic staff – including 10 at the London Health Sciences Centre – about the right questions to ask, and what to do, when a patient is abused at home.
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The International Association of Forensic Nursing is now soliciting applications for the IAFN Research Awards for FY 2019. Applications will be peer-reviewed by an internal review panel through the IAFN Research Committee. Eligibility is limited to IAFN members. Applications are due Feb. 15! Learn more.
Join us for our free, members-only Forensic Nursing Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C. Learn about the impact of healthcare policy on your forensic practice and meet with members of Congress to advocate for issues that impact forensic nursing. Training is provided. If you are interested in attending and belong to an IAFN chapter, please reach out to your chapter leadership to see how they might support you.
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Join us on Jan. 22, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern to learn how the National TeleNursing Center piloted the use of Video Conferencing Technology to support SANE/SAFE and emergency department clinicians caring for sexual assault patients across three states with diverse communities (tribal, rural, military). Free for members. Register today.
KYW Newsradio
Police departments in Canada are adopting what has come to be known as "the Philadelphia Model" as a way to handle open rape cases based on what was started in Philadelphia two decades ago.
A few days every year, the Women's Law Project, Women Organized Against Rape and the Child Advocacy Center sit with detectives from the Special Victims Unit and comb through nearly 500 open or unfounded rape cases, asking questions about each one.
"We are looking for victim blaming or gender bias. We are also looking to see if all of the witnesses have been interviewed," said Carol Tracy, executive director of the Women's Law Project and one of the founders of the Philadelphia Model.
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ABC News
All ACT public servants — including shop workers, office staff and bus drivers — will be trained in spotting domestic violence, including little-understood controlling and coercive behaviours, how to respond to victims and where to find them help.
Frontline workers who come into regular contact with domestic violence victims, such as hospital social workers and midwives, will also receive more in-depth advanced training from mid-2019.
It is an expansion the ACT Ambulance Service said could save lives.
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CNN
Psychological and emotional abuse in intimate relationships is now a crime in Ireland.
The Domestic Violence Act 2018 went into effect on Jan. 1, 2019 and provides new protections for victims of "coercive control," a type of emotional and psychological abuse aimed at stripping a person of their self-worth and agency.
Although psychological and emotional abuse — including controlling behavior, isolation, and threats of violence — can be more difficult to recognize than physical violence, it can be just as damaging, experts say.
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Vanderbilt University via Medical Xpress
Stressful or traumatic experiences occurring in a child's earliest years — birth to age five — have been linked to reduced hippocampal volume in adolescence, according to a new Vanderbilt University report published in Developmental Science. "These findings tell us that there may be a 'sensitive period' in which stress is more likely to affect the development of the hippocampus, which is connected to learning, memory and mood," said lead author Kathryn L. Humphreys, assistant professor of psychology at Vanderbilt.
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Yale University via Medical Xpress
In previous studies of resilience in people, researchers have rarely differentiated in their analysis between the types of traumatic events experienced by individuals. However, the type of trauma undergone seems to be a significant predictor of how someone will fare long-term, according to a new study by researchers at the Yale School of Medicine and the VA Connecticut Healthcare System. Additionally, the team found that reactions to various types of trauma differs greatly by gender.
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Infectious Disease Advisor
The rate of syphilis has been increasing in peripartum women in the United States, according to study results recently published in Sexually Transmitted Diseases. This underscores the need for improved prenatal screening and treatment, as infection with Treponema pallidum can have adverse effects on the pregnancy and can also be vertically transmitted to the infant.
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Medical Xpress
Faced with spiralling youth violence and knife crime, authorities in London have decided to treat the issues as a public health problem, deploying similar tactics from the fight against disease epidemics.
The strategy follows pioneering projects credited with bringing down murder rates in Chicago and Glasgow, two cities blighted by violent crime.
In 2018 so far, the British capital has recorded 133 murders, around two-thirds of them stabbings.
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The National Law Review
The Illinois Health Care Violence Prevention Act mandates hospitals and other healthcare providers to comply with requirements aimed at protecting their workers from violence. Beginning Jan. 1, 2019, healthcare providers in Illinois will need to implement specific violence-prevention policies outlined in the Act.
The Act imposes certain duties on employers of healthcare workers, including creating workplace violence prevention programs and providing services to those affected by incidents of violence.
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